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The Australian tax receipts for Microsoft, Apple, Facebook and Google vary markedly.

‘Wilful blindness’: Big fines for tech giants that ignore abuse material

Companies such as Apple, Microsoft, Google and Meta face fines of almost $800,000 a day if they don’t come clean on their progress in combating child exploitation and sex abuse material on their platforms.

  • Angus Thompson

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Ita Buttrose and Justice Michael Lee.

Lehrmann defamation case judge to headline women’s media conference

Justice Michael Lee is neither a woman nor in media. But we’re looking forward to his customary wit and wisdom when he takes the stage with Ita Buttrose.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and Noel Towell
Elon Musk has lambasted the Australian regulator’s attempt to force the video’s removal.

Stabbing video not offensive enough to be removed, X Corp tells court

X Corp’s legal team argues that footage of a Sydney priest being stabbed does not meet the legal threshold for it to be forcibly removed.

  • Paul Sakkal
online filters for children

‘A welcome backflip’: Porn passport trial to keep kids off adult websites

Children will be blocked from watching explicit content online under a $6.5 million federal trial as governments attempt to counter the rising rate of violence against women.

  • Paul Sakkal
The Time Magazine cover that spurred a moral panic in 1995. While the research behind the article was eventually discredited, underlying concerns about children’s safety and censorship have persisted.

We’ve been worried about kids on the internet for 30 years. Is it time to toughen up on tech?

The alleged stabbing of a Sydney bishop by a teenager has reignited Australian alarm at the realities of online harm, reopening a debate about how to protect children.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel in a still from his Anzac Day video

Stabbed bishop takes swipe at those using attack ‘to serve political purposes’

Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel has uploaded an 11-minute statement to YouTube saying he is not opposed to the video of his stabbing remaining on social media.

  • Olivia Ireland
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Elon Musk has hit back at Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, accusing him of censorship.

Musk v Albanese: How Sydney stabbing sparked a censorship debate

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has accused Elon Musk of choosing “ego and showing violence” over common sense as the X owner argues taking the videos down globally is censorship.

  • Olivia Ireland
Elon Musk

Watchdog wins urgent court bid to make X take down stabbing videos

After Elon Musk compared the take-down order to something from a communist regime, politicians have lined up to slam the owner of X for acting like he is above the law.

  • Paul Sakkal
Facebook and Instagram are part of a new tool to let young people stop their nudes images being spread online.

Facebook, Instagram launch tool to block sharing of children’s explicit images

The new platform will let young Australians stop their nude images being spread on social media networks and have them taken down.

  • Nick Bonyhady
“The world is not going to stop if you’re not updated more than once a day”: there’s no need to continually doom-scroll apps like Twitter.

Twitter is demanding payment for security. What should users do?

Getting login codes via an app is more secure but very few users do it. Twitter’s tight-fisted announcement could spur change.

  • Nick Bonyhady

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